USD Women's Soccer 2008

P.J. Woolridge enters his first season as an assistant coach with he USD women's soccer program and will assist head coach Ada Greenwood with all aspects of the game. Woolridge comes to the Toreros after serving as an assistant coach at Cal Poly for the past eight seasons. While at Cal Poly, Woolridge helped the team win the Big West championship four consecutive seasons (2000, 01, 02, 03), and helped guide the Mustangs to five appearances in the NCAA Tournament. Woolridge was no stranger to Cal Poly soccer as he was a four-year starter for the Mustangs' men's team from 1995-98. Playing the majority of his games at sweeper, Woolridge helped lead Cal Poly to the Divsion I men's soccer playoffs in his first year in 1995 and earned All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation first-team honors in 1996 and 1998. Woolridge still holds school records at Cal Poly for career matches played (72), career matches started (72) and game-winning goals in a season (four in 1995). He graduated from Cal Poly in 2000 with a degree in psy– chology. The San Jose native is a 1995 graduate of Leland High School in San Jose.Woolridge lettered four times in soccer as a midfielder and forward, serving as team captain two seasons.His four teams posted a combined 70-15-5 record and Woolridge was named All-City four times and All– Santa Clara County twice as he scored 55 goals and 68 assists in his prep career. He also was a two-time High School All-American (1994, 1995) and played on the Youth National Team in 1991 and 1993. Karen Bardsley is entering her first yeas as an assistant coach under head coach Ada Greenwood. Bardsley will assist the Toreros with the goalkeep– ers and all other aspects of the game. Bardsley comes to USD after serving as an volunteer assistant coach at her Alma Mater, Cal State Fullerton.While coaching at Fullerton, Bardsley helped guide the Titans to a 12-8-2 overall record and a third straight Big West Conference tournament championship and into the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Under her tutelage, Shayla Sabin was named the Big West Conference Tournament MVP. During the summer of 2007, Bardsley played for the Ajax America team of the Woman's Premier Soccer League. In this season, Bardsley helped lead the team to the final four in the Open Cup Championship at the USASA National Cup finals in Seattle, Wash. For her efforts, she was named the West Coast Goalkeeper of the Year. Bardsley also played for the English National team Ul 9, U21 and seniors from 2003-06. Bardsley was a standout on the Cal State Fullerton women's soccer team from 2002-2006. She left Fullerton as the career record holder in ev– ery major goalkeeping category, holding the records for victories (47), goals-against-average (0.84), saves (312) and minutes played (6,395). In her junior year of 2005, she set the single-season record for GAA (0.64), victories (16) and shutouts with 10 en route to leading the Titans to the Sweet-16 of the NCAA Tournament. She was named the Big West Con– ference's Goalkeeper of the Year for three consecutive seasons, the only player in the history of the conference to achieve this honor.During her outstanding collegiate career, Bardsley was a two-time All-West Region selection by the NSCAA and a three-time Soccerbuzz All-West Region selection.